Arkanoid, the game of paddle+ball+brick, has always been a very popular game ever since Taito made it popular with its famous Arkanoid of DOH series. S60 has had its fair share of Arkanoids over the years…and MobileStream’s Meteor Breakout wants to be the best. But can it stack up?
Meteor’s interface is very well-done. The splash screen takes you to a level selection toggle, where one of the nine available campaigns can be chosen:
After starting a game, one immediately notices the creativity of the game designers. Levels look really cool, and none is similar to the one before it. The engine supports a huge variety of brick types, leading to a very interesting overall gameplay experience:
A variety of powerups is available to spice up the game like in every other Arkanoid clone. For all who are new to Arkanoid, a powerup changes the behavior of the paddle if you touch it.
The variety of powerups is astonishing. For example, there are two different ’shoot’ powerups and three ball modifiers – more than I ever saw before:
Meteor’s levels are spiced up with enemies that can be destroyed by hitting them a few times with a ball. Some enemies survive more than one hit, and some of them even fire back:
Last but not least, the game has excellent sound effects. Unfortunately, the excellent background music seen in the Palm OS version was removed due to space constraints – mobile-stream is ready to reimplement it if sufficient demand turns up.
This review looked at version 1.4 of Meteor on a Nokia N71. The game was stable in the testing period, it needs 1848KB of memory and can be run from an external memory card.
Overall, congratulations to MobileStream. Meteor Breakout is the new king of Arkanoid clones for the S60. The game has extremely interesting gameplay and looks damn cool – a must have for every Arkanoid lover with an S60 phone…
Meteor costs 14.95$ in the TamsPalm store. Use the discount code ARKANOIDNOW to get 20% off the price for a week!
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